Hand garden-cultivator



(No Model.)

W. S. SHULL.

HAND GARDEN CULTIVATOR. No. 341,512. Patented May 11, 1886.

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\VILLIAM S. SHULL, OF CLAYTON, ILLINOIS.

HAN D GARDEN-CULTIVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,512, dated May 11,1886.

Application filed February 15, 1886. SerialNo. 192,010. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. SHULL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clayton, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, have invented and produced certain new and useful Improvements in Hand Garden- Gultivators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in hand garden-cultivators; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of deand claimed.

The figure is a perspective view of my invention.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawing, A indicatesa handle, which may be formed of wood and of any suitable length, and is provided at one end with a metallic band, a. Through the handle and said me tallic band I pass a transverse bolt, B, for securing the shanks of the lateral plows or shovels to the handle. I may employ a plate on the under side of these shanks for clamping them to the handle, or the head of the bolt may be sufficiently broad to answer the purpose. By this means it will be seen that the shanks of the lateral blades are firmly secured to the handle, and a sufficient interval left between them for the introduction of a third or intermediate blade. The blades may be of the ordinary construction, but it is preferred to have the intermediate blade extend beyond the lateral blades.

0 indicates theshank of the intermediate blade, which is pivoted between those of the lateral blades by means of the transverse bolt 1). This intermediate shank is provided on its under side and in advance of the pivot with a wing-nut, D, which is designed to fix the same with relation to the lateral blades in both an elevated and depressed position. It is obvious that when the intermediate blade is raised, as shown in dotted lines, the same may be held in such position by turning the wing-nut in a plane transverse to the shank, so as to have the same engage the upper sides of the lateral shanks.

The shanks ofthe lateral blades are curved outwardly, and when the middle shovel has been raised the implement can be used so as to have its blades or shovels go on either side of a row of plants.

Having described my invention, what I claim is l. A hand garden-cultivator having lateral curved fixed shovels or blades, and a pivoted blade adapted to be fixed with relation to the permanently-fixed blades, substantially as specified.

2. A hand garden-cultivator having two lateral fixed blades and an intermediate pivoted blade carrying a wing-nut, whereby the same may be held in either an elevated ora depressed position, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, in a hand garden-cultivator, of a pivoted blade or shovel and a fastening device thereon, whereby the said shovel may be secured in an elevated and depressed position, substantially as specified.

VVILLIAM S. SHULL.

WVitnesses:

'BENJ. MEREDITH,

W. B. WEST. 

